So I was browsing slideshare this morning and Chris Cummings presentation from a couple of years ago is on the first page as a featured presentation. I thought it was great when I first saw it, but since it is taking on a second life and to make sure more folks get to see it I decided to post. Nice Job Chris! If you don’t read his blog you should – www.christophercummings.com
The other side of innovation provides some interesting insights on how to drive innovation through to execution. The most interesting piece on what not to do is:
If you are focusing on innovation you need to not be constrained by current people, processes and systems. Here are also 10 myths of Innovation from the presentation:
Oh yeah, here’s the presentation.
Open source has apparently been around for 35 yrs according to this presentation. There is no doubt how open source availability has changed the economics of enterprise software and helped fuel the growth of the cloud and this history of open source is very helpful to better understand how we got to where we are today in software. Many thanks to Francois Marier for putting this presentation which puts open source in a historical context.
Saeed Khan’s presentation is not far off from reality. There probably are some other “bubbles”, but this is not meant to be exhaustive just fun. Sometimes fun stings a little of course.
